NEW CATEGORY OF MAGNETIC MATERIALS, THEIR PRODUCTION AND USE

摘要

A new category of ferromagnetic materials consists of two phases, namely a hard magnetic phase and a soft magnetic phase, which are structured by interchange coupling of the spins of the two phases. Preferably the weak magnetic phase is of the cubic lattice type and the orientation of the hard magnetic phase is distributed statistically with respect to the principal direction of the soft magnetic phase. The magnetic material is characterized by high reversibility of the remanence and by an isotropic ratio of remanence to saturation magnetization greater than 0.6. A preferred embodiment of the material of the invention has the composition RExFeyBzSiuTv, where RE = rare earth and/or Y, Zr, Hf and T = Cr, Nb, Mo, V. The materials are suitable for permanent magnets, broadband microwave absorbers and magnetic recording media.